Despite housing charities complaining about the number of landlords evicting tenants, official figures show the number has steadily dropped over the past five years. The latest data from the Ministry of Justice for the first three months of 2019 show landlord legal...

The government wants to hear opinions from landlords about improving the legal process for evicting private tenants. A Ministry of Justice consultation is asking how the rules should change by to combine separate procedures in county courts and the High Court into one...

Landlords instructing rent eviction specialists who are not solicitors to evict tenants need to be careful as the eviction specialist will normally not be allowed to represent the landlord. A judge has ruled that eviction services that take tenants to court are acting...

Landlord Rehan Sheikh was sentenced to four months in jail after giving six tenants a two-hour warning that he was going to evict them after they complained about the condition of their shared home. He even threw out a mum while her two children were at school,...

The number of tenants evicted from their homes was up 5% in the first quarter of the year compared to the year before, according to the latest official figures. The Ministry of Justice said courts handled 10,732 claims to possess a property in the first three months...

Deregulation Bill update. Retaliatory evictions In December 2014, provisions to prevent retaliatory evictions were inserted into the Deregulation Bill which is the same bill being used to address some of the problems created by the tenancy deposit Superstrike case....